Monday, August 6, 2007

Is Our Children Learning?



Since early 2003, the United States has spent approximately 450,000,000,0000 buckaroos funding the war in Iraq. Yes, that's 450 billion dollars. Instead, we could have:

Hired 7,794,848 additional school teachers for one full year, or
Paid for 59,574,407 children to attend Head Start, or
Insured 269,334,450 children for one year, or
Provided 21,804,763 students with 4-year scholarships to public universities.

Quite sad, really.

To see this data broken down by state and/or county, visit the National Priorities Project Link to the right.

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